Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The significance of the rhyming couplets at the end of the poem emphasizes the pain that the speaker feels, he laments, “So that I wink or else hold down my head, because your blazing eyes my bale have bred” (13-14). These rhyming couplets portray the feeling of desire and the torture inflicts on

Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.

The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him

In stanza four the pronoun “you” is introduce. We assume its Collin prior relationship, as its only stanza that doesn’t contains Collin pet analogy and first evidence contributing to the theme. The metaphor shift to abstract when Collin deny her worthiness and what she meant to his life. But, as he subtracted himself to the “combination”, he was able to discover her value rather measuring his spouse love and intimacy. Repetitions occur, such as “awkward and bewildering” to represent the time when his spouse was companion to him, but he couldn’t reciprocate those same nurturing feelings back to her. In addition, his spouse “held” him more than he ever did. He regrets it now when he is holding his dog but the dog is incapable to measure that same actions and words because of law of nature. The last stanza line, “..now we are both lost in strange and distant neighborhood.”, is another metaphor reference the way a lost dog might feel to his lost love that can’t ever be the same

The words used in the poem is very natural and free flowing. This is further amplified with the distinctive lack of proper punctuation that the poem has. The author repetitive use of “let” shows the readers how colloquial language is used to amplify the normality of the love between the lovers. In addition, the words such as “feast to come” and “knees held in mine” reflects the intimacy that the speaker has with his lover. The poet’s use of diction further amplifies the love left by the speaker; as the speaker yearns for the lips of his lover and without it feels “abandoned like a child”.

Her lover lie to her, and his lover was not really love her, so that this poem is about pain. The narrator and her lover loved each other. “Together we trod the secret lane And walked the muttering town” (Parker, 1924). This poem use Imagery, showed us they falling in the love.

The descriptions in Byron's text seem, largely, distant emotionally and physically. He doesn't attempt to revisit his

The third and fourth stanzas offer the poems greatest paradoxes. The author speaks of the lovers being "At this unique distance from isolation" which is to say they are in the one place where they can truly be themselves, in their natural habitat, doing that which is only natural to human instinct. Despite these circumstances, however, the two are at a loss: "It becomes still more difficult to find / Words at once true and kind, / Or not untrue and not unkind." It is through this final stanza that the author conveys the ultimate paradox of human relationships: Relationships are not built upon true love for one another; rather they are built upon the absence of hatred.

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

To give time a sense of realness Byron uses personification throughout the entire poem. As Byron states in “To Time”, “In the joy I’ve sighed to think thy flight would soon subside from swift to slow” (l 29-30). In other words as life goes on death becomes more real and people want time to stop. In the end though people all die and we eventually all “must fall upon-a nameless stone” (l 40). With every poem Byron wrote came a new topic of discussion and lesson to be learned.

People show their love in a variety of ways. The two poets have two different tones with one being joyful and other condensing using his attitude and writing techniques to express love for the women they adore.

The third stanza goes on to define the pain, only now in more emotional terms, such as "It hurts to thwart the reflexes / of grab, of clutch" (14-15), as well as the pain of continuously having to say good bye, each perhaps as if for the last time: "to love and let / go again and again" (15-16). These lines reinforce the impression that the first stanza's definition of "to love differently" is in fact an anti-freedom or state of emotional anarchy, now using words like "pester" to describe any separation; the poet is compelled "to remember / the lover who is not in the bed" (16), hinting at obsessive tendencies as being possible components of the relationship. We also learn that she believes love requires work, which she cannot do without her partner's assistance, and that this lack of cooperation frustrates her. She believes this neglected effort is the other party's fault by his failure to do his fair share, thereby leaving her own efforts ineffective, the whole of it characterized as an effort "that gutters like a candle in a cave / without air" (19-20). Her demands of this work are quite broad, encompassing being "conscious, conscientious and concrete" in her efforts and optimistically calling this work "constructive" (20-21) before ending the stanza.

Poetry is a varied art form. Poetry is expression with words, using aesthetics and definition. Word choice in poetry is the single most important thing. Devices such as assonance, alliteration and rhythm work in a poem to convey a certain image or to facilitate understanding. Similes and metaphors can take two unlike objects, such as a potato and cinderblock, and if done the correct way use them to describe how Abraham Lincoln dealt with scoundrels. Poetry is beautiful. One of the best genres in poetry, let alone a great literary movement is Romanticism or the post-enlightenment Romantics.

In 1808 Lord Byron, a poet and a member of the House of Lords, received a degree from Cambridge. That Same year Byron finished writing “When We two Parted” but it wasn't published until 1816. The poem is about the narrator's recent breakup and how everything reminds him of it. In his poem “When We two Parted”, Lord Byron uses metaphors, alliteration, and silence imagery to convey a sorrow tone about a cruel break up, how one another don't speak to each other anymore, and his view on forbidden love.

At first glance, this strong heartbeat seems to convey his anxiousness about the oncoming winter or his longing for the addressee. He might be afraid of being lonely, but the anticipation of her arrival dampens his fear. The speaker’s relationship to the addressee is easy to misinterpret. A better understanding is only possible if one considers the cycle’s previous poem, “Ihr rufe junger jahre die befahlen”, in which the speaker looked for the beloved of his dreams but realised that he could not find her on earth. Now, it would suffice him, if another woman, who had previously shyly asked to be his companion, was once again drawn to him by the intensity of his longing. While he only felt a fleeting affection for her previously, he would now gladly accept her as his companion. The loud throb of the second verse, must, therefore, express a feeling of emptiness and constant longing for someone unreachable. It is only eased, not extinguished by the speaker’s new companion. According to Morwitz, the word “sachte” indicates her understanding silence. The speaker calls her “Teure”, an endearment that conveys his gratitude. The old-fashioned and slightly mannered phrasing “Mit der Erwartung deiner” makes it easy to misread the third verse as “with the anticipation of your